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Professor Charles Fernyhough's Outputs (163)

The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology (2018)
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Alderson-Day, B., Mitrenga, K., Wilkinson, S., McCarthy-Jones, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.07.001

Inner speech is a common experience for many but hard to measure empirically. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ) has been used to link everyday phenomenology of inner speech – such as inner dialogue – to various psychopathological tra... Read More about The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology.

Origins of mother–child reminiscing style (2018)
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Reese, E., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., & Centifanti, L. (2019). Origins of mother–child reminiscing style. Development and Psychopathology, 31(2), 631-642. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579418000172

Maternal elaborative reminiscing supports preschool children's autobiographical memory, self-concept, and emotion understanding. What are the factors contributing to mothers' elaborative style of reminiscing? In a longitudinal community sample (n = 1... Read More about Origins of mother–child reminiscing style.

Mothers’ early mind-mindedness predicts educational attainment in socially and economically disadvantaged British children (2018)
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Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., & Centifanti, L. (2019). Mothers’ early mind-mindedness predicts educational attainment in socially and economically disadvantaged British children. Child Development, 90(4), e454-e467. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13028

Relations between mothers' mind-mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments) at 8 months (N = 206), and children's educational attainment at ages 7 (n = 158) and 11 (n = 156) were investigated in a British sample. Appropriate mind-re... Read More about Mothers’ early mind-mindedness predicts educational attainment in socially and economically disadvantaged British children.

Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2017)
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Alderson-Day, B., Lima, C., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Shanmugalingam, P., Fernyhough, C., & Scott, S. (2017). Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Brain, 140(9), 2475-2489. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx206

Auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices) are typically associated with psychosis, but a minority of the general population also experience them frequently and without distress. Such ‘non-clinical’ experiences offer a rare and unique opportunit... Read More about Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

Development of restricted and repetitive behaviors from 15 to 77 months: Stability of two distinct subtypes? (2017)
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Uljarević, M., Arnott, B., Carrington, S., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., McConachie, H., …Leekam, S. (2017). Development of restricted and repetitive behaviors from 15 to 77 months: Stability of two distinct subtypes?. Developmental Psychology, 53(10), 1859-1868. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000324

A community sample of 192 parents reported on their children’s restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) at mean ages 15 months (N = 138), 26 months (N = 191), and 77 months (N = 125) using the Repetitive Behavior Questionnaire-2 (RBQ-2). Consistent... Read More about Development of restricted and repetitive behaviors from 15 to 77 months: Stability of two distinct subtypes?.

Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices (2017)
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Saunders, C., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 8(2), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-017-0051-5

This article draws on research from the major collaborative research project Hearing the Voice, based at Durham University, to reconsider and foreground Margery Kempe’s inner voices, and hence, to return to an emphasis on inner, spiritual experience... Read More about Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices.

Proof of concept of a mind-mindedness intervention for mothers hospitalized for severe mental illness (2017)
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Schacht, R., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Centifanti, L., Pawlby, S., & Bureau, J. (2017). Proof of concept of a mind-mindedness intervention for mothers hospitalized for severe mental illness. Development and Psychopathology, 29(2), 555-564. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579417000177

Studies 1 and 2 investigated how maternal severe mental illness (SMI) related to mothers’ mind–mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments). Study 1 showed that mothers with SMI (n = 50) scored lower than psychologically well mothers... Read More about Proof of concept of a mind-mindedness intervention for mothers hospitalized for severe mental illness.

Mother–child attachment from infancy to the preschool years: Predicting security and stability (2017)
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Meins, E., Bureau, J., & Fernyhough, C. (2018). Mother–child attachment from infancy to the preschool years: Predicting security and stability. Child Development, 89(3), 1022-1038. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12778

Relations between maternal mind-mindedness (appropriate and nonattuned mind-related comments), children's age-2 perspective-taking abilities, and attachment security at 44 (n = 165) and 51 (n = 128) months were investigated. Nonattuned comments predi... Read More about Mother–child attachment from infancy to the preschool years: Predicting security and stability.

Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences (2017)
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Alderson-Day, B., Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences. Consciousness and Cognition, 49, 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.003

Readers often describe vivid experiences of voices and characters in a manner that has been likened to hallucination. Little is known, however, of how common such experiences are, nor the individual differences they may reflect. Here we present the r... Read More about Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences.

Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives (2017)
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Hurlburt, R., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Kühn, S. (2017). Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 43. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00043

We discuss the historical context for explorations of “pristine inner experience,” attempts to apprehend and describe the inner experiences that directly present themselves in natural environments. There is no generally accepted method for determinin... Read More about Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives.

Inner speech and clarity of self-concept in thought disorder and auditory-verbal hallucinations (2016)
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de Sousa, P., Sellwood, W., Spray, A., Fernyhough, C., & Bentall, R. (2016). Inner speech and clarity of self-concept in thought disorder and auditory-verbal hallucinations. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 204(12), 885-893. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0000000000000584

Eighty patients and thirty controls were interviewed using one interview that promoted personal disclosure and another about everyday topics. Speech was scored using the Thought, Language and Communication scale (TLC). All participants completed the... Read More about Inner speech and clarity of self-concept in thought disorder and auditory-verbal hallucinations.

Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations (2016)
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Garrison, J., Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Smailes, D., Fernyhough, C., & Simons, J. (2017). Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations. Cortex, 91, 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.11.011

People with schizophrenia who hallucinate show impairments in reality monitoring (the ability to distinguish internally generated information from information obtained from external sources) compared to non-hallucinating patients and healthy individu... Read More about Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations.

Hallucinations: A systematic review of points of similarity and difference across diagnostic classes (2016)
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Waters, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Hallucinations: A systematic review of points of similarity and difference across diagnostic classes. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 43(1), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw132

Hallucinations constitute one of the 5 symptom domains of psychotic disorders in DSM-5, suggesting diagnostic significance for that group of disorders. Although specific featural properties of hallucinations (negative voices, talking in the third per... Read More about Hallucinations: A systematic review of points of similarity and difference across diagnostic classes.

How does restricted and repetitive behavior relate to language and cognition in typical development? (2016)
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Larkin, F., Meins, E., Centifanti, L. C. M., Fernyhough, C., & Leekam, S. (2017). How does restricted and repetitive behavior relate to language and cognition in typical development?. Development and Psychopathology, 29(3), 863-874. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579416000535

Relations between restricted and repetitive behavior at age 26 months and children's concurrent (N = 203) and later (n = 161) social cognition and language development were investigated. Restricted and repetitive behavior was assessed using two scale... Read More about How does restricted and repetitive behavior relate to language and cognition in typical development?.

Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations (2016)
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Alderson-Day, B., Diederen, K., Fernyhough, C., Ford, J. M., Horga, G., Margulies, D. S., …Jardri, R. (2016). Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 42(5), 1110-1123. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw078

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the potential for alterations to the brain’s resting-state networks (RSNs) to explain various kinds of psychopathology. RSNs provide an intriguing new explanatory framework for hallucinations, wh... Read More about Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations.

Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions (2016)
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Moseley, P., Alderson-Day, B., Ellison, A., Jardri, R., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, Article 515. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00515

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are the experience of hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker. Results from recent attempts to treat AVHs with neurostimulation (rTMS or tDCS) to the left temporoparietal junction have not been conclusive,... Read More about Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: New Techniques and Future Directions.

Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how? (2016)
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Alderson-Day, B., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23(7-8), 163-194

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are experiences of hearing voices in the absence of an external speaker. Standard explanatory models propose that AVH arise from misattributed verbal cognitions (i.e. inner speech), but provide little account of h... Read More about Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how?.

Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing (2015)
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Smailes, D., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., & Dodgson, G. (2015). Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1933. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01933

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for voice-hearing (i.e., auditory verbal hallucinations; AVH) has, at best, small-to-moderate effects. One possible reason for this limited efficacy is that current CBT approaches tend to conceptualise voice-hearin... Read More about Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing.

Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain (2015)
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Garrison, J., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Haggard, M., Bank, T. A. S. R., & Simons, J. (2015). Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain. Nature Communications, 6, Article 8956. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9956

Hallucinations are common in psychiatric disorders, and are also experienced by many individuals who are not mentally ill. Here, in 153 participants, we investigate brain structural markers that predict the occurrence of hallucinations by comparing p... Read More about Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain.